Washing-machine



(No Model.)

J R STORIE- WASHING MACHINE.

No. 505.907. Patented Oct. 3, 1893.

Will) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA R. STORIE, OF TRAVISVILLE, TENNESSEE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 505,907, dated October 3, 1893.

Application filed June 30,1893. Serial No. 479,296. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSHUA R. STORIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Travisville, in the county of Pickettand State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful VVashing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in washing machines.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of washing machines and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiective one in which clothes may be rapidly and thoroughly washed without liability of Wearing, tearing or otherwise injuring the fabrics.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washing machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the movable rubbing cylinder.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlugs.

1 designates a rectangular washing machine body, mounted on rockers 2, which are extended considerably beyond the ends of the body to enable the movable body 1 to be greatly tilted during rocking without becoming unbalanced, and without liability of tipping over and spilling its contents. The body is provided at one end with a handle 3, and it has arranged within it an intermediate semicylindrical rubbing surface 3, and inclined longitudinally-disposed end-bars 4, located at opposite sides of the semicylindrical rubbing surface which is transversely disposed. The stationary semicylindrical rubbing surface 3 consists of a series of transversely-disposed bars 5, secured at intervals to the curved edges of segmental pieces 6, which are secured to the sides of the body 1 at the bottom thereof. The series of longitudinally-disposed bars, which are arranged at each end of the washing machine body, have their ends beveled and are secured to'the ends of the body and to the bottom thereof.

A rubbing cylinder 7 operates within the body in connection with the rubbing surface inclined bars exerting a scrubbing action and forcing suds and air through the clothes and removing the dirt and stains from them. The rubbing cylinder is provided at its ends with annular ribs or enlargements 8, and has socured to them peripheral bars 9 arranged at intervals.

It will be seen that the washing machine is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that itis readily operated, and that it is adapted for quickly removing the dirt and stains from clothes without injury to the fabrics.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention. 7

What I claim is- 1. In a washing machine, the combination of an oscillating washing machine body, a centrally-arranged transversely-disposed semicylindrical rubbing surface arranged within 7 the body, the series of inclined end-bars arranged at each end of the washing machine body and located at opposite sides of the semicylindrical rubbing surface, and a loose movable rubbing roll arranged within the body and adapted to move backward and forward from one end of the body to the other, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a washing machine, the combination of an oscillating body, a semicylindrical stationary rubbing surface arranged within the body at the center thereof and composed of segmental end-pieces and bars arranged at intervals and secured to the curved edges of the segmental pieces, the inclined bars arranged at intervals at each end of the washing machine body, and a loose rubbing roll adapted to move backward and forward in the body, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSHUA R. STORIE.

Witnesses:

A. A. Goonme, F. M. HURST. 

